Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 51, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 1, 1986, 6:00 PM CDT for Barber County, Kansas. It was in force for 60 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 1, 1986, 6:00 PM CDT (23:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 1, 1986, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Barber County, KS
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 6:05 PM CDT | Hail 3 | Barber, KS | |
| Aug 1, 6:23 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Barber, KS | |
| Aug 1, 7:05 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Barber, KS |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 123 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1813 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 917 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 217 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 10.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 012303 SVRDDC KSC007-020000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 600 PM CDT FRI AUG 1 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... SOUTHWEST KANSAS.. BARBER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM REACHING FROM 12 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GREENSBURG IN KIOWA COUNTY INTO NORTHWEST BARBER COUNTY NEAR SUN CITY. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REACH MEDECINE LODGE BY 620 PM CDT. MOVEMENT IS SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE FREQUENT..DANGEROUS LIGHTNING..LARGE HAIL..AND DAMAGING WINDS. GO TO A SAFE PLACE IMMEDIATELY. DELZEIT
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 1, 4:01 PM CDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
4PM CDT FRI AUG 1 1986
AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM WAS DEVELOPING AROUND JETMORE KANSAS...
WHICH IS 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF DODGE CITY. MOVING SOUTHEAST 15 MPH.
GREGG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards | 60 min |
| Aug 1, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 65 min |
| Aug 1, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray, Haskell, Meade, Seward | 60 min |
| Aug 1, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Stevens | 60 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.